- Docente: Carmine Pizzi
- Credits: 1
- SSD: MED/11
- Language: Italian
- Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
- Campus: Rimini
- Corso: First cycle degree programme (L) in Nursing (cod. 8475)
Learning outcomes
At the end of the module, the student has knowledge, as far as his competence is concerned, relating to pathophysiology, functional and instrumental semiotics and the clinical and pharmacological and instrumental therapy of diseases of the cardiovascular system.
Course contents
Cardiovascular semeiotics: meaning of the monitoring of vital parameters, and cardiovascular implications in finding altered values (heart rate, respiratory rate, blood pressure, diuresis, body temperature). Chest pain diagnostics: stable angina, unstable angina and heart attack; non-ischemic cardiovascular chest pain (dissecting aneurysm of the aorta, pericarditis).
Cardiovascular risk factors and the prevention of cardiovascular diseases: dyslipidemia, high blood pressure, diabetes mellitus, smoking. Primary prevention, secondary prevention.
Cardiological diagnostics: instrumental examinations in cardiology (ECG, stress test, ultrasound, scintigraphy, angiography, magnetic resonance imaging, new endovascular imaging techniques) indications for their use and limits of these techniques. Nursing assistance with diagnostic tests (basal and dynamic ECG, stress test, myocardial scintigraphy, echocardiography). Nursing care in the hemodynamics room and in the electrophysiology room.
Electrocardiogram: Meaning of P, QRS, T waves and ST segment
Coronary syndromes: Pathophysiology of stable angina and acute coronary syndromes. Clinic: stable angina and acute coronary syndromes. Therapy principles: stable angina and acute coronary syndromes.
Arrhythmias. Classification, pathophysiology. Notes on supraventricular tachyarrhythmias: atrial fibrillation and flutter. Notes on ventricular tachyarrhythmias: ventricular tachycardia and ventricular fibrillation. Tip twist. Tachyarrhythmia therapy. Bradyarrhythmias. Pace-maker implant and cardiology devices.
Heart failure: etiopathogenesis, clinical pathophysiology of chronic gambpenso and acute heart failure (acute pulmonary edema). Therapy principles.
Valvular disease :Etiopathogenesis, pathophysiology, clinic, diagnosis and medical and surgical treatment of aortic, mitral and tricupidal insufficiency, and aortic and mitral stenosis
Myocardiopathies and endocarditis: outline
Congenital heart disease: outline
Pericarditis: outline
Role of the nurse: care plan from the acute phase to discharge and rehabilitation to face the patient's bio-psycho-social assistance problems. Cardiological rehabilitation in the patient undergoing cardiac surgery.
Cardiovascular emergency management: tasks and priorities of nursing staff in cardiovascular emergenciesoutline
Readings/Bibliography
Harrison: Internal Medicine
Only the topics discussed.
Teaching methods
Frontal teaching method
Assessment methods
At the end of the lessons there is a written test (multiple choice questions); being an integrated course, the test consists of 90 questions (15 for each teacher) with a single answer to be chosen from 4 or more different solutions. For each course, the student must correctly answer at least 5 questions of the 15 proposals and the cumulative score must reach 54 correct answers to have enough (18/30) and based on the total number of correct answers they are predefined (and communicated to the students ) even higher scores; there is no penalty for incorrect answers. The time allowed for the exam is 80 minutes
Teaching tools
Projector, PC, overhead projector
Office hours
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